Trade union federation Cosatu has thrown its weight behind an education NGO’s campaign to encourage learners to get to school on time.
Student representatives at the strife-torn University of Zululand are hopeful that academic activity will resume at the institution on Wednesday.
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/ 22 February 2011
Inequality across schools is so extreme that legislation should be amended to force the government to set minimum infrastructure standards.
More than 100 high school learners picketed outside Parliament on Thursday last week to draw attention to education crisis in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 16 February 2011
The lack of privacy at schools means that HIV tests on schoolchildren there must not proceed without proper planning and protection of human rights.
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/ 14 February 2011
Children’s rights experts and activists have welcomed government proposals offer HIV tests in schools.
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/ 10 February 2011
The access to the provision of free education is a worthy goal but it should not come at the expense of quality.
Eastern Cape official says white male principals are prime offenders in school exclusions.
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/ 19 January 2011
Universities that offer diplomas as well as degrees appear to be the first choice of students who have been flooding universities.
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/ 11 January 2011
Two Johannesburg universities were flooded this week by unprecedented numbers of students seeking late admission.
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/ 10 January 2011
More than 20% of learners who heard last week that they had passed the matric exams could be left in limbo in the 2011 academic year.
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/ 10 December 2010
SGBs expressed dismay this week that the department of basic education was discussing whether to remove their power to appoint school principals.
Western Cape slashes funding to poor schools rogramme despite experts’ warnings.
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/ 1 December 2010
A UCT graduate has written a scathing open letter to HET MInister Blade Nzimande detailing the difficulties he and other black graduates face.
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/ 24 November 2010
University lecturers should themselves be taught how to teach, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 November 2010
Wits’ prestigious EPU has relaunched itself by announcing a new research focus – the relationship between education and the labour market.
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/ 8 November 2010
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance is considering amending the budget to allow for a zero-rating of VAT on books.
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/ 5 November 2010
In a first for South Africa, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has established a chair of rural education.
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/ 3 November 2010
Experts are in the dark about the new Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training but are hopeful her appointment will benefit the sector.
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/ 1 November 2010
President Zuma signalled his commitment to improving the skills sector by appointing Hlengiwe Mkhize as deputy minister of Higher Education.
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/ 29 October 2010
Wits University students will become the first African team to participate in the iGEM competition, run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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/ 28 October 2010
The Democratic Alliance has proposed that Parliament debate what exactly constitutes the minimum standards of the right to education.
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/ 22 October 2010
A team of learners at Johannesburg’s Deutsche Internationale Schule are hoping other schools will follow their lead and enter the SA Solar Challenge.
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/ 22 October 2010
Principals and analysts have welcomed moves by the education department to introduce a policy on the promotion and progression of grade 1-9 learners.
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/ 13 October 2010
The DA will inspect one of the seven “mud schools” in the Eastern Cape that have launched legal action against the state during a visit on Friday.
DUT student shares joint first place in the SAFashion Week Student Competition.
For many school-leavers, how to finance university study is the first and most challenging question they face.
Students will stage an anti-homophobia protest at UCT on Thursday following what they term "hate crimes" against homosexuals at the institution.
Educators will gather in Cape Town next week to work out a programme for a series of workshops next year aimed at assisting primary school teachers.
The minister of basic education has proposed that October be celebrated as "Teachers’ Month" to recognise the significant role of teachers in society.
Education authorities will oppose a court challenge by impoverished schools in the Eastern Cape to improve their infrastructure.
More than two months after delivering "yellow cards" to government education activists Equal Education are yet to receive any response.